Word: beriberi
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...billion in 1996. They have also ratcheted up the dosages they take, gulping down supplements at 10, 50, even 100 times the daily recommended levels. One-A-Day and other multivitamin products were originally designed to prevent such centuries-old nutritional deficiencies as scurvy and beriberi. But now the same micronutrients are being taken in megadoses--in effect, as drugs--to prevent or treat a broad range of illnesses, including psoriasis, tendinitis, cancer and heart disease...
...National Academy of Sciences. "We are now entering the second wave of vitamin research," explains Jeffrey Blumberg, associate director of the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. "The first wave was the discovery of vitamins and their role in combatting nutritional deficiencies such as rickets and beriberi. That occurred in the first half of the century. Now we're on the second wave. You don't need to take vitamin C to prevent scurvy in this country today. But you could need it for optimal health and the prevention of some chronic disease...
...troops and 26,000 civilians on besieged Bataan had less than a month's rations of rice, flour and canned meat. Medicine was in short supply. Malaria, dysentery and beriberi flourished. As the weeks dragged on, a chant grew popular...
...dietary issues are at stake. Popular outrage over the Chicago meat- packing scandals, revealed in Upton Sinclair's 1906 classic, The Jungle, gave rise to both a meat-inspection law and the predecessor to the modern FDA. The discovery, during World War II, that many draftees suffered from beriberi and other vitamin B deficiencies led to the government's creation of the Recommended Dietary Allowances for vitamins and minerals...
...body's natural defense system against infection; crowded together with inadequate sanitation and nonexistent medical care, the starving-as the refugee experience proves-become prey to typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis and malaria. The absence of essential vitamins or minerals can also bring on the so-called deficiency diseases: rickets, beriberi and pellagra. Sometimes, the hungry simply lose the will to live...